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Carl Erskine, one of the last surviving Brooklyn Dodgers and a mainstay of a pitching rotation that carried the team to four World Series, ... Erskine said in a 2012 interview.
Erskine said in a 2012 interview. ... Carl Daniel Erskine was born on Dec. 13, 1926, in Anderson. He played American Legion baseball as a youngster and on the high school team.
Carl Erskine, the humble Hoosier who pitched two no-hitters for the 1950’s Brooklyn Dodgers and was the last of the fabled “Boys of Summer” has died. Erskine, 97, died Tuesday morning after ...
The film “The Best We’ve Got: The Carl Erskine Story” will be screened on Nov. 15 at the Historic Artcraft Theatre. People called him “the best we’ve got.” Carl Erskine was a champion.
Carl Erskine was a champion with the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, ... he’s the best,” Daniels said in an interview. “He was living these things decades before people invented these buzzwords.
When Jimmy Erskine was born on April 1, 1960, the youngest child of Carl Erskine and his wife, ... In an interview with the NY Times, Erskine said this about arriving at Ebbets Field, ...
At one point, Mr. Erskine recalled in a 2022 interview with the Indianapolis Star, ... Carl Daniel Erskine was born Dec. 13, 1926, in Anderson, a midsize city in central Indiana.
Carl Erskine, a pitching star for the Brooklyn Dodgers who threw two no-hitters and struck out a then-record 14 batters in a World Series game, died Tuesday. He was 97.
I’ve always loved Carl Erskine, partly because he was a Dodger; partly because he is from nearby Anderson; partly because he came to my small, rural school years ago as the featured speaker at ...
“The Best We’ve Got: The Carl Erskine Story” blends baseball and Special Olympics history, as Indianapolis filmmaker Ted Green dissects the wonders of Carl Erskine, his wife, Betty, their ...
It is the earliest memory, perhaps, of Carl Erskine’s 97 years. In August 1930, a few months before his fourth birthday, Erskine rode with his father, Matt, to Marion, Ind., 30 miles or so from ...